Unique Words I've Learned

[mdyak]

Lorikeets certainly are beautiful birds. Thanks for sharing the pic and story about the cockatoos. I imagine they make a lot of other stuff besides racket nesting there every day... I would not want to be the owner of the property where the tree is located unless some $$ could be made from selling bags of guano.

Edit: I wanted to include this story. I stayed in a motel while attending a wedding in a distant city. I was awakened in the early morning hours by what sounded like a jackhammer. Searching for the source of the sound, I saw a red-headed woodpecker drumming on a metal sign. I discovered they use hollow logs, metal signs etc. to attract mates. Noisy birds for a different reason.

Well, if you ever get lonely, you could try banging on a metal sign and see what happens...

[lalatan]

Lorikeets certainly are beautiful birds. Thanks for sharing the pic and story about the cockatoos. I imagine they make a lot of other stuff besides racket nesting there every day... I would not want to be the owner of the property where the tree is located unless some $$ could be made from selling bags of guano.

Edit: I wanted to include this story. I stayed in a motel while attending a wedding in a distant city. I was awakened in the early morning hours by what sounded like a jackhammer. Searching for the source of the sound, I saw a red-headed woodpecker drumming on a metal sign. I discovered they use hollow logs, metal signs etc. to attract mates. Noisy birds for a different reason.

[mdyak]

Always a joy to get this word: lorikeets.


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They are soooo beautiful! Spent a week or so in Cairns in Australia and had so many of them right outside my bedroom window (back a long time ago) - so colorful! Also there was a tree on the main drag that 100's of cockatoos slept in each night. The racket they made before settling down was quite something.

[Naboka]

Always a joy to get this word: lorikeets.


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[Naboka]

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Anyone who's ever posted on this forum can identify with this word.

Didn't come close to finding it, but was so impressed had to share.

The competition for longest words certainly is fierce. Glad I'm sitting in the bleachers for that one.

[lalatan]

2cute, that was a good find. Never saw or heard it before. I wonder if sasquatches quatch in the woods.

I'll share a unique word I found yesterday: CYCLOPENTANNULATIONS (36/19). I didn't have much hope it was valid. I thought maybe it had something to do w 5-year cycles. Not the case though: (organic chemistry) Modification by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclopentane ring.

Enjoy the games.

[2cute]

Okay here's a new one I had never heard of ...

Quatch = to squat or be flat

So @ the gym I'll be doing some Quatches to strengthen my thighs ... LOL

[lalatan]

Sorry to hear your stroaming and WordTwist time have been drastically cut. Hopefully things will change for you soon. I don't know if SEPULCHRING is all that creepy. Once it's all done, things are all sealed up and forgotten. A word such as HAGFISHLIKENESSES would be more so IMHO.

currerbell, I don't if you'll see this or not as you are stroaming about but I felt behooved (1 of my long-time fave words since the obvious meaning would be to have hooves) to post this. While surveying this barren desert devoid of any high scoring words today I saw that SEPULCHRING had made its 5x5 debut (as far as I know anyway)!

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I have to say that I have not been enjoying much stroaming lately, either at work or at home. I went almost 48 hours without playing last week, which is really quite unlike me. I'm also very behind in reading the boards.

Interesting that SEUPLCHRING made it to the 4x4 boards before the 5x5 boards. And that it's gotten onto two boards. Well, when you are a compelling (and creepy) word, you just get around, I guess.

[2cute]

Apparently it behooves ruminants to be hooved. I always liked the sound of BESMIRCHED. Some other be- words I enjoyed learning a few years ago: BESNOWED (covered with snow), BENIGHTED (overwhelmed by circumstances) and BEKNIGHTED (hailed for doing good or some service). I can't recall for sure but I think WordTwist also accepted BEFOOZLED. FOOZLED means bungled, especially a golf stroke.

Oh! I do love BEFOOZLED! I'm going to use that as much as possible in conversation. I also like collecting the little words too like NERK, and BINT, and SNEB, SNEAP, and SNIG.

I second that. I too like all the be- & little words lalatan & mdyak!

[mdyak]

Apparently it behooves ruminants to be hooved. I always liked the sound of BESMIRCHED. Some other be- words I enjoyed learning a few years ago: BESNOWED (covered with snow), BENIGHTED (overwhelmed by circumstances) and BEKNIGHTED (hailed for doing good or some service). I can't recall for sure but I think WordTwist also accepted BEFOOZLED. FOOZLED means bungled, especially a golf stroke.

Oh! I do love BEFOOZLED! I'm going to use that as much as possible in conversation. I also like collecting the little words too like NERK, and BINT, and SNEB, SNEAP, and SNIG.

[lalatan]

Apparently it behooves ruminants to be hooved. I always liked the sound of BESMIRCHED. Some other be- words I enjoyed learning a few years ago: BESNOWED (covered with snow), BENIGHTED (overwhelmed by circumstances) and BEKNIGHTED (hailed for doing good or some service). I can't recall for sure but I think WordTwist also accepted BEFOOZLED. FOOZLED means bungled, especially a golf stroke.

[2cute]

currerbell, I don't if you'll see this or not as you are stroaming about but I felt behooved (1 of my long-time fave words since the obvious meaning would be to have hooves) to post this. While surveying this barren desert devoid of any high scoring words today I saw that SEPULCHRING had made its 5x5 debut (as far as I know anyway)!

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So SEPULCHRING is a synonym for burying.

BEHOOVE to be necessary & proper. Course I like lalatan's definition too. It would be nice to be hooved. LOL

[lalatan]

...Back to WordTwist, I recently discovered a new part of speech for a word I've long known. My new 4x4 board popped up, and I honed in on the "-ing" in the corner, but I was having a dreadful time with it. I thought maybe it was one of those times when an "-ing" is not really an "-ing." I was looking at the other mess of letters, and I thought, "honestly, that looks like SEPULCHRE. But alas, no "e." So I thought, "Well, this is WordTwist," and I typed in SEPULCHRING. Bing! 11 letters, and...10 points. You just never know around here.

currerbell, I don't if you'll see this or not as you are stroaming about but I felt behooved (1 of my long-time fave words since the obvious meaning would be to have hooves) to post this. While surveying this barren desert devoid of any high scoring words today I saw that SEPULCHRING had made its 5x5 debut (as far as I know anyway)!

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No, your brain has supermegaunbrokenfulabilitinesses.

Thank you, bwt1213. I have actually taped that to my computer monitor at work for the next time I think I've broken the ol' gray matter. Just being able to parse my way through that word reminds me that I am not hopeless!